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The Third Annual Raleigh Wars Assassin’s Ball

This past Saturday was the Third Annual “Assassin’s Ball“, held at the soon to be opened Isaac Hunter’s Oak City Tavern. It was a gathering of participants, their guests, and others to celebrate the end of another round of “Raleigh Wars”, an urban assassin game that takes places a couple of times a year.
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Downtown, Looking East

Downtown Raleigh looking east as small, dark clouds foreshadow a wet evening.

First Friday on Fayetteville Street

The image above was taken as this past First Friday was winding down, with a few stragglers hanging out by the Fish Market on the corner of Fayetteville and Hargett Street around 10PM.

If you’ve been missing Devin’s First Friday posts the past couple of months, you can expect a new one next month. Something tells me there will be more people out braving the cold on two wheels than there were last December.


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